FACEBOOK WAR: How Your Posts Kill You and Your Career in Divorce Court

 Legally  Socially Sloppy

Judges and lawyers who are used to socializing through Bar Associations and professional meetings  face new legal and ethical issues when such relationships are not disclosed in legal proceedings. 

​Over 85% of people making it to a trial in a divorce proceeding will make it there self- represented, having never had the money to hire a lawyer or having had judge unwilling to apply the law.

​The law requires judges to disclose their professional and social relationships: ON THE RECORD. Yet , a review of 2000 court files in Alameda, Contra Costa, Napa, Sacramento and Santa Clara County reveals that 99% of the time toxic legal relationships requiring disclosure are not disclosed. More often than not divorcing couples are left in the dark as to potential conflicts that can impact the outcome of rulings in deeply emotional legal proceedings involving children, property and personal property.  

A select few involved in the state's family courts have demonstrated a willingness to use social media in ways similarly outlawed by California's Cyber Anti Bullying laws.  Now, it seems pro per litigants are using social media to give those bad actors a taste of their own medicine. 

​Santa Clara County's Judge Erica Yew, once the Chairperson of the Commission on Judicial Performance, has been known to report her own victimization of domestic violence and assault, yet as the photo to the right indicates, Ms. Yew is willing to parade children in her own family all over the internet in a manner that compromises the privacy of the most innocent. 

​Judge James Towery (below)  has paraded his social relationships all over Facebook for years, and it is reported that women whom Towery has sexually harassed and engaged in extra marital relationships use Jim Towery's social media pages using fake names on Facebook, Match.com and LinkedIn to cryptically communicate with Towery off the radar of judicial managers and his wife. 

Family Courts  Allow Facebook As Evidence in Custody Battles 

Lawyers and self-represented parties have been using Facebook to spy on their former spouses, lawyers and others involved in high conflict divorce cases. A recent poll suggests that Judges, while often unable to lawfully admit such evidence into the legal record, are viewing Facebook and other social media sites to gather information about litigants and lawyers who appear before them. Such practices can be highly prejudicial and led to unconscionable rulings. Social media reminds us that today's modern judges are not immune to being influenced by the social media revolution. 

Judges, Court Reporters and Court Staff Sloppy with Their Own Facebook Posts 

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After 10 years of being subjected to Facebook warfare, lawyers , CPS workers and parents have resorted to capturing the Facebook and Social Media posts of judges, lawyers and court staff acting in divorce cases in a manner that reveals improper governmental activity and officers of the court running wild like an STD during spring break. 

A seasoned MI6 Spy has confessed that the modern age of spying is reverting to paper ! 

​The misuse and abuse of social media that is now causing people to lose their careers, their divorce cases and their privacy is fueling a new underground movement back to handwritten notes, and good old US Mail.